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What to expect from our Strategic Business Plan
Welcome back to a new season of the RSSB Podcast. In this episode, we’re joined by RSSB Chief Executive Mark Phillips. Mark takes us through our five-year Strategic Business Plan covering 2024–2029, pulling out some of the key priorities along the way. He’s particularly excited to see how rail can leverage some of the technological and digital advancements taking place. Listen now to learn more about what we’re hoping to deliver to industry in the next few years.Related information Strategic ...
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Introducing our 2024-25 Annual Business Plan
Welcome to another episode of the RSSB podcast! Today, join four members of our Executive Committee — Johnny Schute (Chief Operating Officer), Keith Hanlon-Smith (Chief People Officer), Hannah Kingsley (Chief Finance Officer), and Paul McLaughlin (Chief Commercial Officer) — as they outline industry's current challenges, discuss RSSB's priorities in addressing those, and introduce our new 'strategic multipliers'.You can find out more about our 2024–2025 Annual Business Plan at: https://www.rs...
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Sustainable Rail Blueprint: its impact so far and where we go from here
This month we're joined by Thom Rawson, RSSB's Sustainable Rail Principal, to talk through the impact the Sustainable Rail Blueprint has had so far. He also covers how we're helping rail organisations embed it, how we're facilitating industry collaboration on sustainability, and what's next.Find out more at https://www.rssb.co.uk/sustainability/the-sustainable-rail-blueprint
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Covid-19, Lockdown and your Mental Wellbeing
Joana Faustino, Work Psychologist at RSSB, talks about the feelings we might be experiencing and some coping strategies for the pressures that we are facing.01:00 Possible effects of the lockdown on your mental health.03:10 Acknowledging your emotions.04:12 How are news reports affecting you?04:55 Managing worry.07:09 Managing difficult situations.09:30 Physical and mental health working together.10:40 Keeping a routine.12:28 Getting help from others.13:30 Identifying and solving problems.15:...
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Signals passed at danger: reducing railway risk
Trevor Parkin of East Midlands Railway and Chris Harrison of RSSB talk about what the rail industry is doing to reduce the number of signals passed at danger, and so the likelihood of a potentially fatal train accident.01:25 About Trevor Parkin.02:10 About Chris Harrison.02:35 SPADs in the 1990s and the changes made since.03:53 The Train Protection and Warning System (TPWS).06:07 Optimising the safety benefit of TPWS.07:59 The Red Aspect Approaches to Signals (RAATS) Tool.12:32 How to reduce ...
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Confidential reporting: reducing railway risk
This podcast looks at the part that CIRAS, the Confidential Incident Reporting and Analysis Service, contributes to the continual improvement of safety management for the railway and other transport systems.In this episode Catherine Baker, director of CIRAS, talks about how the confidential reporting service works—the types of incidents and reasons for calls, and examples of the results that CIRAS achieves. She also talks about what CIRAS does to maintain confidentiality, and how the se...